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CONFERENCE CONVENTION 




Washington, February Uh, 1861. 

A number of Commissioners assembled at Willards' Concert 
Hall in consequence of the following preamble and resolutions 
adopted by the General Assembly of Virginia, January the 19th, 
1361. 

Whereas it is the deliberate opinion of the general assembly of Virginia, that 
unless the unhappy controversy, -which now divides the States of this confederacy, 
shall be satisfactorily adjusted, a pernament dissolution of the Union is inevitable ; 
and the general assembly, representing the wishes of the people of the common- 
wealth, is desirous of employing every reasonable means to avert so dire a calami- 
ty, and determined to make a final effort to restore the Union and the Constitu- 
tion, in the spirit in which they were established by the fathers of the republic : 
Therefore, 

Resolved, That on behalf of the commonwealth of Virginia, an invitation is 
hereby extended to all such States, whether slaveholding or non-slaveholding, as 
are willing to unite with Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the present un- 
happy controversies, in the spirit in which the Constitution was originally formed, 
and consistently with its principles, so as to afford to the people of the slavehold- 
ing States adequate guarantees for the sucurity of their rights, to appoint com- 
missioners to meet on the 4th day of February nest, in the City of Washington, 
similar commissioners appointed by Virginia, to consider, and if practicable, agree 
upon some suitable adjustment. 

Resolved, That ex-president John Tyler, William C. Rives, Judge John W 
Brockenbrough, George W. Summers and James A. Seddon are hereby appointed 
commissioners, whose duty it shall be to repair to the City of Washington, on the 
day designated in the foregoing resolution, to meet such commissioners as may be 
appointed by any of the said States, iu accordance with the foregoing reso- 
lution. 

Resolved, That if said commissioners, after full and free conference, shall agree' 
upon any plan of adjustment requiring amendments to the Federal Constitution, 
for the further security of the rights of the people of the slaveholding States, they 
be requested to communicate the proposed amendments to Congress, for the pur- 
pose of having the same submitted by that body, according to the forms of the 
Constitution, to the several States f or ratification. 



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Resolved, That if said commissioners cannot agree on such adjustment, or if 
agreeing, Congress shall refuse to submit for ratification such amendments as may 
be proposed, then the commissioners of this State shall immediately communicate 
the result to the executive of this commonwealth, to be by him laid before the 
convention of the people of Virginia and the general assembly: provided, that 
the said commissioners be subject at all times to the control of the general assem- 
bly, or if in session, to that of the State convention. 

Resolved, That in the opinion of the general assembly of Virginia, the proposi- 
tions embraced in the resolutions presented to the Senate of the United States by 
the Hon. John J. Crittenden, so modified as that the first article proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States shaH' apply to all the terri- 
tory of the United States now held or hereafter acquired south of latidute thirly- 
six degrees and thirty minutes, and provide that slavery of African race shall be 
effectually protected as property therein during the continuaucc of the territorial 
government, and the fourth article shall secure to the owners of slaves the right 
of transit with their slaves between and through the non-slaveholding States and 
territories, constitute the basis of such an adjustment of the unhappy controversy 
which now divides the States of this confederacy, as would be accepted by the 
people of this commonwealth. 

Resolved, That ex-president John Tyler is hereby appointed by the concurrent 
vote of each branch of the general assembly, a commissioner to the President of 
the United States, and Judge John Robertson is hereby appointed, by a like vote, 
a commissioner to the State of South Carolina, and the other States that have 
seceded, or shall secede, with instructions respectfully to request the President of 
the United States and authorities of such States to agree to abstain, pending the 
procedings contemplated by the action of this general assembly, from any and all 
acts calculated to produce a collision of arms between the States and the Govern- 
ment of the United States. 

Resolved, That copies of the foregoing resolutions be forthwith telegraphed to 
the executives of the several States, and also to the President of the United States, 
and the governor be requested to inform, without delay, the commissioners of 
their appointment by the foregoing resolutions. 
A copy from the Rolls. 

WM F. GORDON, Jr., 

C. II. 1). .V A". R. of Fa. 

Mr. Moretiead of Kentucky, called the meeting to order, and 
moved that Mr. Wright of Ohio be appointed .temporary chair- 
man, to be followed by the appointment of a committee consisting 
of a member from each delegation, to be named by such delega- 
tion, who should recommend officers for a permanent organization, 
and should also report rules for the government of the body. 

The motion to appoint Mr. Wright was thereupon put and 
unanimously carried. 

Upon being conducted to the chair by Mr. Meredith of Penn- 
sylvania, and Mr. Chase of Ohio, Mr. Wright made a brief ad- 
dress explanatory of the object of the meeting, and expressed a 
hope and belief, that, as the delegates present from the several 
States, had assembled under the influence of the most friendly 
feelings, if they carried those feelings into an examination of the 
difficulties which surround the country, the result would bo a sue- 



cess, earnestly to be hoped for, by every lover of his country, so 
as to establish the Union, according to the spirit of the existing 
Constitution of the United States. 

On motion, Mr. Benjamin C. Howard of Maryland, was ap- 
pointed Secretary. 

The following States responded to a call of their names ; the 
lists of Delegates to be handed in to-morrow : 

New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, 
Indiana. 

Mr. Meredith of Pennsylvania, then renewed the motion for 
the appointme»t of a committee as above mentioned, which was 
carried, and the following members named by their repective dele- 
gations, viz : 

New Hampshire, Amos Tuck ; Rhode Island, William W. IIop- 
pin ; New Jersey, Joseph F. Randolph ; Pennsylvania, Thomas 
E. Franklin ; Delaware, George B. Rodney ; Maryland, John 
W. Crisfield; Virginia, William C. Rives; North Carolina, Thomas 
Ruffin ; Kentucky, Charles A. Wickliffe ; Ohio, Reuben Hitch- 
cock ; Indiana, Goodlove S. Orth. 

On motion, the Convention adjourned until to-morrow at 12 
o'clock. 

B. C. HOWARD, 

Secretary. 



Washington City, February 5, 1861. 

The Convention was called to order pursuant to adjournment, 
by Mr. Wright, President pro tern. 

The Journal of Proceedings of yesterday, was read and ap- 
proved. 

Mr. Thomas E. Franklin of Pennsylvania, moved that a com- 
mittee of five be appointed by the President, to whom the creden- 
tials of members should be submitted and reported on, which was 
carried. 

The President thereupon appointed as said committee : 



Mr. Summers of Virginia. 

Mr. Guthrie of Kentucky. 

Mr. Morehead of North Carolina. 

Mr. Smith of Indiana. 

Mr. Franklin of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Wickliffe of Kentucky, from the committee on organiza- 
tion, made a report which was read. 

Mr. Clay of Kentucky, moved to strike out for the present and 
for further consideration, the report which relates to the proceed- 
ings of the convention. 

This motion gave rise to a debate, pending which a division of 
the report was called for, whereupon it was moved, that the Con- 
vention proceed to consider the following part of the report of the 
committee relating to officers of the permanent organization of the 
convention as follows: 

The committee to whom was referred the subject of the organiza- 
tion of the Convention made the following report: They recom- 
mend that the permanent officers of the Convention, be a Presi- 
dent and Secrotary, and that the Seoretary have leave to ap- 
point assistants, not exceeding two, to assist him in the discharge 
of his duties. The committee report for President, John Tyler 
of Virginia ; Secretary, Crafts J. "Wright of Ohio. 

Thereupon it was moved and unanimously agreed, that this part 
of the report be accepted and the officers designated, be appoin- 
ted. 

The President pro. tem. appointed Mr. Ewinq of Ohio and 
Mr. Meredith of Pennsylvania, to conduct President Tyler to the 
chair. 

President Tyler on taking his seat proceeded to address the 
Convention : 

Gentlemen : I fear yoo have committed a great error in appointing me to the 
honorable position yon have assigned me. A long separation from all deliberate 
bodies has rendered the rules of their proceedings unfamiliar to me, while 1 
should find in my own Btate of health, variable and tickle as it is, sufficient rea- 
son to decline the honor of being your presiding officer. But, in times like these, 
one has bat little option loft him. Personal considerations should weigh but 
lightly in the balance. The 01 untry is in danger; it is enough; one must take 
the place as-'iL r ned him in tin' great work of reconciliation and adjustment, 

'I'll.' voice of Virginia has invited her co-states to meet her in council. In the 
initiation id' this Government that same voice was beard and complied with, and 
the results of seventy-odd years have fully at teste 1 the wi-lom of the decisions 



theu adopted. Is the urgency of her call now less great than it was then ? Our 
goodlike fathers created : we have to preserve. They built up through their wis- 
dom and patriotism monuments which have eternized their names. You have be- 
fore you, gentlemen, a task equally grand, equally sublime, quite as full of glory 
and immortality. You have to snatch from ruin a great and glorious Confedera- 
tion, to preserve the Government, and to renew and invigorate the Constitution. 
If you reach the height of this great occasion your children's children will rise 
up and call you blessed. I confess myself to be ambitious ef sharing in the glory 
of accomplishing this grand and nagnificent result. To have our names enrolled 
in the Capitol, to be repeated by future generations with grateful applause, this 
is an honor higher than the mountains, more enduring than the monumental 
alabaster. 

Yes, Virginia's voice, as in the olden time, has been hear J. Her sister States 
meet her this day at the council board. Vermont is here, bringing with her the 
memories of the past, and reviving in the memories of all her Ethan Allen and 
his demand for the surrender of Ticonderoga in the name of the Great Jehovah 
and the American Congress. New Hampshire is here, her fame illustrated by me- 
morable annals, and still more lately as the birth-place of him who won for him- 
self the name of Defender of the Constitution, and who wrote that letter to John 
Taylor which has been enshrined in the hearts of his countrymen. Massachusetts 
is not here. [Some member said she is coming.] I hope so, said Mr. Tyler, 
and that she will bring with her her daughter, Maine. I did not believe it could 
well be that the voice which in other times was so familiar to her ears had been 
addressed to her in vain. Connecticut is here, and she comes, I doubt not, in the 
spirit of Roger Sherman, whose name with our very children has become a house- 
hold word, and who was in life the embodiment of that sound practical sense 
which benfits the great lawgiver and constructor of governments. Rhode Island, 
the land of Roger Williams, is here, one of the two last States, in her jealousy of 
the public liberty, to give in her adhesion to the Constitution, and among the 
earliest to hasten to its rescue. The great Empire State of New York, represen- 
ted thus far but by one delegate, is expected daily in fuller force to join in the 
great work of healing the discontents of the times and restoring the reign of fra- 
ternal feeling. New Jersey is also here, with the memoiies of the past covering 
her all over. Trenton and Princeton live immortal in story, the plains of the 
last incrimsoned with the hearts blood of Virginia's sons. Among her delega- 
tion I rejoice to recognise a gallant son of a signer of the immortal Declaration 
which announced to the world that thirteen Provinces had become thirteen inde- 
pendent and sovereigu States. And here too is Delaware, the land of the Bayards 
and the Rodneys, whose soil at Brandywine was moistened by the blood of Virgi- 
nia's youthful Monroe. Here is Maryland, whose massive columns wheeled into 
line with those of Virginia in the contest for glory, and whose State-house at An- 
napolis was the theatre of a spectacle of a successful commander, who, after libe- 
rating his country, gladly ungirthed his sword and laid it down upon the altar of 
that country. Then comes Pennsylvania, rich in Revolutionary lore, bringing 
with her the deathless names of Franklin and Morris, and I trust ready to renew 
from the belfry of Independence Hall the chimes of the old bell which announced 
freedom and independence in former days. All hail to North Carolina, with her 
Mecklenburg Declaration in her hand, standing erect on the ground of her own 
probity and firmness in the cause of the public liberty, and represented in her at- 
tributes by her Macon, and in this assembly by her distinguished son at no great 
distance from me. Four daughters of Virginia also cluster around the council 
board on the invitation of their ancient mother— the eldest Kentucky, whose sons, 
under the intrepid warrior, Anthony Wayne, gave freedom of settlement to the 
territory of her sister Ohio. She extends her hand daily and hourly across la 
belle riviere, to grasp the hand of some one of kindred blood of the noble States of 
Indiana, and Illinois, and Ohio, who have grown up into powerful States, already 
grand, potent, and almost imperial. Tennessee is not here, but is coming— pre- 
vented from being here only by the floods which have swollen her rivers. _ When 
she arrives she will wear the badges on her warrior crest of victories won, in com- 



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p:\nv with the groat West, on many :in ensanguined plain, and standards torn 
tiom the hands of the conquerors at Waterloo. Missouri and Iowa, and Michi- 
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, etill linger behind, but it may be hoped that 
their heartB are with U6 in the great work we have to do. 

Gentlemen, the eyes of the whole country are turned to this assembly in expec- 
tation and hope. I trust that you may prove yourselves worthy of the great occa- 
sion . Our ancectors probably committed a blunder in not having fixed upon every 
tilth decade for a call of a General Convention to attend and reform the Constitu- 
tion. On the contrary, they have made the difficulties next to insurmountable to 
accomplish amendments to an instrument which was perfect for five millions of 
people, but not wholly so as to thirty millions. Your patriotism will surmount 
the difficulties, however great, if you will but accomplish but one triumph in ad- 
vance, and that is, a triumph over party. And what is party when compared to the 
ta-sk of rescuing one's country from danger? Do that, and one long, loud shout 
of joy and gladness will resound throughout the land. 

On motion of Mr. Ewing, action on the remainder of the re- 
port of the committee on organization, was postponed until Wed- 
nesday. 

Mr. Wickliffe of Kentucky, offered the following resolution: 

Resolved, That the Convention shall be opened with prayer, and that the clergy 
of the City of Washington be requested to perform that service. 

Which was adopted. 

That with a view to carry out the resolution of the Convention, 
the Rev. Mr. Gurley be now requested to offer up prayer, which 
was agreed to. Whereupon Mr. Gurley offered up prayer. 

The Convention being informed by the President of the tender 
of the room by the Mayor and Council of the City of Washing- 
ton, for the use of the Convention, and also of tender of police 
officers to attend the sittings of the Convention, it was moved and 
agreed to, that the same be accepted. 

On motion of Mr. Johnson of Maryland, it was resolved that 
the President be requested to furnish a copy of his speech to the 
Convention to be made part of this day's proceedings, and that 
the same shall, with the proceedings of this day be published. 

Mr. Grimes of Iowa, informed the Convention that he had a 
letter in regard to the appointment of delegates from Iowa, which, 
on his motion, was referred to the committee on credentials. 

Mr. Wright of Ohio, moved that the Convention do now adjourn 
until 12 o'clock to morrow, which was agreed to. 

The Convention adjourned until 12 o'clock to-morrow. 

CRAFTS J. WRIGHT, 

Secretary. 



Washington, February tith, ISGf. 

The Convention met pursuant to adjournment. 
President Tyler in the chair. 

The journal of the proceedings of yesterday were read, amen- 
ded, and approved. 

Mr. Summers, chairman of the Committee on Credentials, made 

the following report : 

The credentials of the following gentlemen from the States 

hereafter enumerated, have been duly submitted and examined by 

your committee, and approved by them. 

New Hampshire — Amos Tuck, Levi Chamberlain, Asa Fowler. 

Vermont — Hiland Hall, Levi Underwood, H. Henry Baxter, L, 
E. Chittenden, B. D. Harris. 

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — Samuel Ames, Alex- 
ander DuncaDj "William W. Hoppin, George H. Browne, Sann 
uel G. Arnold,- 

Connecticut — Roger S. Baldwin, Chauncy F. Cleveland, Charles 
J. McCurdy, James T. Pratt, Robbins Battelle, Amos S. 
Treat. 

New Jersey — Charles S. Olden, Peter D. Vroome, Robert F. 
Stockton, Benjamin Williamson, Joseph F. Randolph, Freder- 
ick T. Frelenghuysen, Rodman M'. Price, William C. Alexander, 
Thomas J. Stryker. 

Pennsylvania — Thomas White, James Pollock, William M. Mere- 
dith, David Wilmot, A. W. Loomis, Thomas E. Franklin, Wil- 
liam McKennan. 

Delaware — George B. Rodney, Daniel M. Bates, Henry Ridgeley,- 
John W. Houston, William Cannon. 

Maryland — John F. Dent, Reverdy Johnson, John W. Chrisfieldy 
Augustus W. Bradford, William T. Goldsborough. J. Dixon 
Roman, Benjamin C Howard. 

Virginia — John Tyler, William C. Rives, John W. Brocken- 
brough, George W. Summers, James A. Seddon. 

North Carolina — George Davis, Thomas Ruffin, David S. Reed, 
D. M. Barrengen, J. M. Morehead. 



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Kentucky— William 0. Butler, James B. Clay. Joshua F. Bell, 
Charles S. Morehead, .lames Guthrie, Charles A. Wickliffe. 

Ohio— John 0. Wright, Solomon P. Chase, William S. Groes- 
beck, Franklin T. Backus, Reuben Hitchcock, Thomas Ew- 
in£, V. B. Ilorton. 

Indiana — Caleb B. Smith, Pleasant A. Hacklenear, Godlove S. 
Orth, E. W. II. Ellis, Thomas C. Slaughter. 

j owa — James Harlan, James W Grimes, Samuel R. Curtiss, Wil- 
liam VanDcvcr. 
On motion of Mr. Wickliffe, the Secretary was authorized to 

employ the additional assistants. 

Mr. Wickliffe, chairman of the committee on organization, 

called up for consideration that part of the report not heretofore 

agreed to, and moved that the same be adopted. 

Mr. Seddon of Virginia, offered the following amendment : 

Resolved, That no part of the Journal be published without the order or leav.' 
of the Convention, and that no copies of the whole or any part be furnished or 
allowed, except to members, who shall be privileged to communicate the same 
to the authorities or deliberative assemblies of their respective States, when 
deemed judicious or appropriate under their instructions, and that nothing spo- 
ken in the house be printed or otherwise published, but private communications 
respecting the proceedings and debates, while recommended to be with caution 
und reserve, are allowed at the discretion of each member. 

On motion, the above resolution and the original report and 
resolution, were referred back to the committee. 

Mr. Guthrie of Kentucky, moved the adoption of the follow- 
ing; resolution : 

Resolved, That a committee of one from each State be appointed by the Com- 
missioners thereof, to be nominated to the President and to be appointed by him, 
to whom shall be referred the resolutions of the State of Virginia and the 
other States represented, and all propositions for the adjustment of existing dif- 
ficulties between States, with authority to report what they may deem right, ne- 
cessary, and proper to restore harmony and preserve the Union, aud that they re- 
port on or before Friday. 

Mr. EwiNG of Ohio, suggested that said resolution be so modi- 
fied as to authorize said committee to sit during the meeting of 
the Convention, which being accepted, said resolution was agreed 

to. 

The President appointed the following committee to carry into 
effect that part of the report of the Committee on Rules and 
Organization, which related to obtaining the services of a cler- 
gyman to open the proceedings with prayer : 



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Mr. Randolph of New Jersey; Mr. Wickliffe of Kentucky ; 
Mr. Johnson of Maryland. 

On motion of Mr. Johnson of Maryland, it was agreed that the 
members of this Convention should call in a body on the Presi^ 
dent of the United States at such time as would be agreeable to 
him, to be announced by the President of this Convention. 

On motion, the Convention reconsidered the resolution recom- 
mitting the rules of proceeding to the committee thereon, and 
agreed to proceed to the consideration of the same. 

Mr. Wright called for a division, and proposed that the seve- 
ral rules should be seperately read, and, when no objection was 
raised, they should be agreed to; and when objected to, should 
be passed for subsequent consideration. 

Which was agreed to. 

The rules hereafter designated were adopted. 

The remainder were recommitted. 

The rules adopted were as follows ; 

1. A Convention to do business shall consist of the Commis- 
sioners of not less than seven States ; and all questions shall be 
decided by the greater number of those which be fully represented. 
But a less number than seven may adjourn from day to day. 

2. Immediately after the President shall have taken the chair, 
and the members their seats, the minutes of the preceding day 
shall be read by the Secretary. 

3. Every member, rising to speak shall address the President, 
and while he shall be speaking none shall pass between them, or 
hold discourse with another, or read a book, pamphlet, or paper, 
printed or manuscript — and of two members rising to speak at 
the same time, the President shall name him who shall be first 
heard. 

4. A member shall not speak oftener than twice, without 
special leave, upon the same question, and not a second time, 
before every other who had been silent shall have been heard, if 
he choose to speak upon the subject. 

5. A motion made and seconded, shall be repeated, and if 
written, as it shall be when any member shall so require, read 
aloud, by the Secretary, before it shall be debated — and may be 
withdrawn at any time before the vote upon it shall have been de- 
clared. 

6. Orders of the dav shall be read next after the minutes, and 






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cither discussed or postponed, before any other business shall be 
introduced. 

7. When a debate shall arise upon a question, no motion, other 
than to amend the question, to commit it, or to postpone the de- 
bate, shall be received. 

8. A question which is complicated shall, at the request of any 
member, be divided and put separately upon the proposition of 
which it is compounded. 

9. The determination of a question, although fully debated, 
shall be postponed, if the Commissioners of any State desire it, 
until the next day. 

10. A writing which contains any matter brought on to be con- 
sidered, shall be read once throughout, for information, then by 
paragraphs, to be debated, and again with the amendments, if 
any made on the second reading, and afterwards the question shall 
be put upon the whole, as amended, or approved in the original 
form, as the case may be. 

11. Committees shall be appointed by the President, unless 
otherwise ordered by the Convention. A member may be called 
to order by any other member, as well as by the President, and 
may be allowed to explain his conduct or expressions, supposed to 
be reprehensible. And all questions of order shall be decided by 
the President, without appeal or debate. 

12. Upon a question to adjourn, for the day, which may be 
made at any time, if it be seconded, the question shall be put 
without a debate. 

13. When the Convention shall adjourn, every member shall 
stand in his place untill the President pass him. 

14. That no member be absent from the Convention, so as to 
interrupt the representation of the State, without leave. 

15. That committees do not sit while the Convention shall be 
or ought to be sitting, without leave of the Convention. 

1G. That no copy be taken of any entry on tho Journal, during 
the sitting of the Convention, without leave of the Convention. 
17. That members only be permitted to inspect the Journal. 

On motion, the Convention adjourned until Thursday, 10 
o'clock, A. M. 

CRAFTS J. WRIGHT, 

Secretary. 



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Washington City, February 1th, 1861. 

The Convention met pursuant to adjournment. 

President Tyler in the chair. 

The Convention was opened by prayer by Rev. Dr. Pyne. 

The Journal of the proceedings of the Convention of the 6th inst., 
were read, amended, and approved. 

President Tyler, in accordance with the resolution of the 6th 
instant, in regard to calling on the President of the United States, 
caused to be read by the Secretary the following letter from the 
President of the United States : 

February 6th, 1861. 
My Dear Sir : I shall feel greatly honored to receive the gentlemen composing 
the Convention, of Commissioners from the several States, on any day and at any 
hour most convenient to themselves. I shall name to-morrow, Thursday, at 11 
or 3 o'clock, though any other time would be equally agreeable to me. I shall at 
all times be prepared to give them a cordial welcome. 

Yours, very respectfully, 

JAMES BUCHANAN. 
His Excellency, John Tyler. 

President Tyler asked the action of the Convention on the 

subject. 

On motion of Mr. Guthrie, it was 

Resolved, That the members of the Convention call on the President of the 
United States this forenoon, at 11 o'clock. 

Mr. Summers from the Committee on Credentials, reported that 
the following gentlemen from the States hereafter enumerated, 
had been duly submitted and examined, and were approved by 
them. 

From New York — William E. Dodge. 

From Tennessee — Samuel Milligan, Josiah M. Anderson, Rob- 
ert L. Caruthers, Thomas Martin, Isaac R. Haukins, R. J. 
McKinney, Alvin Cullom, William Hickerson, George W. 
Jones, F. K. Zollicoffer, William H. Stevens, A. 0. W. Tot- 
ten. 
From Illinois — John Wood, Stephen T. Logan, John M, Palmer, 
Burton C. Cook, Thomas J. Turner. 
Which report was accepted. 



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Mr. "Wickliffe from the Committee on Rules, offered the fol- 
lowing resolution : 

Resolved, That the Secretary procure for the use of the Convention, the neces- 
sary stationery; and also provide for such printing as may be ordered. That 
the Journal up to and including this day's proceedings, as well as the Rules, be 
printed for the use of the members. 

Which -was passed. 

The President appointed the following gentlemen members of 
the committee, on Mr. Guthrie's resolution of yesterday : 

New Hampshire, Asa Fowler ; Vermont, Hiland Hall ; Rhode 
Island and Providence Plantations, Samuel Ames ; Connecticut, 
Roger S. Baldwin ; Netv Jersey, Joseph F. Randolph ; Pennsyl- 
vania, Thomas White ; Delaware, Daniel M. Bates ; North Caro- 
lina Thomas Ruffin ; Kentucky, James Guthrie ; Ohio, Thomas 
Ewing ; Indiana, Caleb B. Smith ; Illinois, Stephen T. Logan ; 
Iowa, James Harlan; Maryland, Reverdy Johnson; Virginia, 
James A. Seddon. 

Mr. Wickliffe from the Committee on Rules, reported the fol- 
lowing : 

18th Rule — That nothing spoken in the Convention, be printed 
or otherwise published or communicated, without leave. 

Which was agreed to. 

Convention adjourned until Friday the 8th instant. 



